Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6100 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 950 servers, and version specific problems on over 260 servers.

In addition to bug fixes, 2.1.1 contains some new functionality, including:

Jabra, author of Nikto's XML output format, has just released Nikto::Parser (along with several other security tool parsers). This perl module takes in a Nikto XML file (or runs Nikto directly) and creates an easily accessible interface to the data.

I've had this little proof of concept tool sitting around for a while: it essentially acts as an ftp-like front end for storing files on a network aware printer.

Most modern printers are not only network aware, but they generally have an embedded hard disk, used to store fonts, templates and even jobs. The de facto standard for communicating with printers is PCL - an ASCII with escape codes system that has existed since the 1980s.

The find_mp3_duplicates PERL script is designed to do one thing: find duplicate audio files, based on the audio content, from two distinct directory trees. It was made to help merge two somewhat-overlapping music collections.

It uses the MP3::Info module to extract the audio portion of the file, and then generates an md5 hash of the audio portion